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US Drone Strike Ordered by Trump Kills Powerful Iranian Commander
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52811"><span class="small">Michael Crowley, Falih Hassan and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times</span></a>   
Friday, 03 January 2020 09:56

Excerpt: "Iran’s top security and intelligence commander was killed early Friday in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by President Trump, American officials said."

The remains of a vehicle hit by missiles outside the Baghdad airport. The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, was killed. (photo: AP)
The remains of a vehicle hit by missiles outside the Baghdad airport. The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, was killed. (photo: AP)

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US Drone Strike Ordered by Trump Kills Powerful Iranian Commander

By Michael Crowley, Falih Hassan and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times

03 January 20


Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said. Iran’s supreme leader called for vengeance.

ran’s top security and intelligence commander was killed early Friday in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by President Trump, American officials said.

The commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who led the powerful Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was killed along with several officials from Iraqi militias backed by Tehran when an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles into a convoy that was leaving the airport.

General Suleimani was the architect of nearly every significant operation by Iranian intelligence and military forces over the past two decades, and his death was a staggering blow for Iran at a time of sweeping geopolitical conflict. 

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